/ Quiet Crags in Derbyshire

Hi folks, I'm looking to start leading single pitch trad, could anyone recommend a quite, simple spot in Derbyshire where I can practice techniques please? (I will be taking precautions such as having some one top rope me for my first pitches).

I'm at the same stage (leading diff to HS) and we had a good evening at Baslow Edge recently. Beautiful night and we had the crag to ourselves. Lots of short Diffs and VD, bit scary with the lack of gear on some!

Birchens - not too tall, plenty of low grades, good rock, fairly quiet, pub at the bottom of the walk in!.
Harborough - same as above though the rock can be a bit polished on the popular routes, good if you want something other than grit, the factory can be a bit noisy, lovely on a sunny day.
Baslow - nice short routes, though if you want to practice placing gear the slab on Gullies Wall area is a bit sparse!
Wharncliffe - Bit further afield but lovely rock and quiet!
Back Forest - Not such a fan of here, I found many of the climbs hard to setup belays.

Bamford has some nice easier stuff, and has normally been fairly quiet when I've gone there.

Or to be honest, don't worry about finding a quiet spot and just go to somewhere like Stanage Popular or Burbage North or wherever else takes your fancy - you can practice placing gear at ground level or slightly above, then jump on the lead on some really nice easy routes.

I've never encountered anyone, no matter how busy the crag or how popular the route, getting arsey about slow novice leaders at a single pitch cragging venue. And I'm a fairly slow leader myself and have belayed a few who seemed to be hoping that in a few thousand years, erosion would bring the top of the crag down to them. (About the closest to backchat I've come was a group of students suggesting that one of them could solo up to my girlfriend to see if a toke on his spliff would calm her nerves a bit...)

Ive seen a few barneys arise at popular crags on classics. Its not reasonable to hog such routes on busy days. There are plenty of less classic routes that would be fine but then sometime you get the unwanted helpful stranger effect.

Yes, never undestimate some peoples impatience or other's inconsideration. Yet you can get the opposite as well: when we first produced the Offwidth pages we crossed the Popular End on busy days without queuing by selecting what was free and by moving so fast some pairs let us in.